A newly renovated Beit Ariela (Shaar Zion Library, 25 Shaul Hamelech St) will be opening soon, and celebrating the completion of the first stage of improvements, will open its gates to a night of music and fun on Thursday, December 29, 2016, starting at 20:30. Open to the public, admission free!

Here’s the program:

On the Beit Ariela stairs – 20:30 – Daniel Davidovsky on amplified bicycle – I’ve heard him in performance before, and found it fascinating.

Mezzanine level new reference library – 21:00, 21:45, 22:30, 23:15 – “If music be the food of love, play on” – texts by William Shakespeare set to music and performed by the New Israeli Vocal Ensemble, conducted by Yuval Ben Ozer.

1st Floor Auditorium – 21:00 Vaadat Charigim – if this be the music of desolation and disaster play on – one of my favorite shoegaze bands

Events Room – 23:00 onward – Uri Misgav will talk about the songs that made the Tel Aviv scene.

Lower Basement Floor (-2) – 21:00, 22:00, 23:00 – Girls in Arms – Jenny (Nadav Bossem) and Jana (Adili Liberman) will take you on a tour of the library archives unlike any other… excellent political satire! They parody to perfection military and general Israeli tropes that will be hilariously familiar to most Israelis, and non-Israelis are sure to have a laugh too, even if they don’t get every single in-joke. Bring an open mind & sense of humor.